Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadHeinrich Meyer Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 5:9 - 5:9
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
1Th_5:9. In this verse does not follow a new reason for the duty of watchfulness and sobriety (Musculus), but a confirmation of the concluding words of 1Th_5:8 : ἐλπίδα σωτηρίας . Hofmann strangely perverts the passage: ὅτι is to be translated by that (not by for), and depends on ἐλπίδα ,—a construction which is plainly impossible by the addition of σωτηρίας to ἐλπίδα , on account of which the passage Rom_8:21, which Hofmann insists on as an alleged analogy, cannot be compared.
The construction τιθέναι or τιθεσθαί τινα εἴς τι , to appoint one for a purpose, to destine one to something, is conformable with the Hebrew ùÑåÌú ùÒåÌí , or ðÈúÇï with ìÀ following; comp. Act_13:47; 1Pe_2:8; 1Ti_1:12.
εἰς ὀργήν ] to wrath, i.e. to be subject to it, to become its prey; comp. 1Th_1:10.
ἀλλʼ εἰς περιποιήσιν σωτηρίας ] but to the acquisition of salvation. περιποιεῖν means to cause something to remain, to save, to acquire. The middle περιποιεῖσθαι signifies to save for oneself. Therefore περιποίησις denotes the acquisition, and particularly the possession of a people; comp. Eph_1:14; 1Pe_2:9; Act_20:28, corresponding to the Hebrew ñÀðÌËìÌÈä , by which the people of Israel were denominated God’s holy property; comp. Exo_19:5; Deu_7:6, etc. Here as in 2Th_2:14 περιποίησις has the meaning of acquisition generally.
διὰ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ] belongs to περιποίησιν , not to ἔθετο (Estius). Even by this grammatical relation of the words, Hofmann’s opinion, that by διὰ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ the pledge of salvation is prominently brought forward, is refuted. But the meaning is not: per doctrinam eam, quam Christus nobis attulit, non rabbini, non philosophi (Grotius), but: by faith on Him.